So my friend Lindsey is leaving us to work in pastures new, she has got a new job on neurosurgery. So what more fitting a send off than...yes thats right youve guessed it A BRAIN CAKE!!!
Firstly, a disclaimer, I didnt bake the cake on this occassion my friend Lucy did but we all decorated it together.
The cake... A traditional victoria sandwich, with lots of lashings of Strawberry Jam filling.
We then made up a generous quantity of butter cream icing, to which we added some Wiltons pink icing colour paste and spread thickly across the top of the cake.
In order to get an accurate brain shape we printed off a template of a brain image we found on the internet and had a little debate about whether we trimmed the cake to size or traced round it. We decided that we didn't want to forfeit any of the cake by cutting it down so we went for the tracing option.
We used strawberry laces and followed the outline of the picture we had, we also used laces to make all the sulci, cerebellum and brainstem. We started off trying to be anatomically correct but then just decided to freestyle it. I think the outcome still looks impressive.
and of course, no cake is truly complete with out tons of hundreds and thousands!!
What do you think??
Becky x x
P.S, please bare with me as I try jazz up my blog its a slow work in progress x
